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It might have made some sense to bring someone from the fashion/brand world to lead software design for Apple Watch, but it sure didn’t seem to make sense for the rest of Apple’s platforms. And the decade of Dye’s HI leadership has proven it.

We cannot fix probability with more probability. We need to re-introduce assert.

Simple, password-based encrypted vault for .env and infrastructure secrets. Like git-crypt or sops, but dramatically simpler. Ideal for small teams and IaC workflows - illarion/lockenv

Customers will see their bills increase from July 1, 2026 when Microsoft 365 pricing increases go into effect, adding up to $3/month for licenses.

As applied at Inkhaven

FoundationDB - the open source, distributed, transactional key-value store - apple/foundationdb

Alignment is not a constraint on capable AI systems. Alignment is what capability is at sufficient depth. OpenAI and Anthropic have been running this experiment for two years.

Uber has said its ad business is on track to generate $1.5 billion in revenue in 2025. It's hoping a new insights platform will encourage more spend.

Netflix won a bidding war for the Warner Bros. film studio and HBO Max streaming service, but it doesn't plan to buy WBD's TV networks.

Everybody get up, it's time to slam now, we got a real jam goin down

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A new report details how Microsoft has cut some internal goals for its AI sales people, why? Nobody wants to use its weak products.

Japan is on alert for a possible mega quake after a magnitude 7.5 tremor hit northern regions late on Monday, prompting tsunami warnings. Authorities say the next few days will be critical.

Before we go any further, one thing that I want to make clear is that the word assume is going to be doing some heavy lifting throughout this post. This was a rabbit hole that I recently went down …

Jailbreaking a Kindle makes it able to do much more. Adding Tailscale takes the Kindle even further.